CTO-Caliber Staff Engineer & Platform Lead – NYC (Equity)

dynamism

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 200,000 - 300,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Job summary

dynamism is hiring a CTO-caliber Engineering Lead in New York. You will own the technical direction of infrastructure for a civic-data platform, working closely with the founder and a small team.

You will steer architecture and product decisions, deliver production-grade systems, and define validation standards. Expect equity, a four-day-in-person schedule in New York, and a high-impact roadmap with public assets data.

Qualifications

  • Experience as CTO, founding engineer, or senior engineering leader.
  • Led at least one product to production.
  • Ability to align technical decisions with customer needs.

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction and build key systems.
  • Connect customer needs to a focused roadmap and experiments.
  • Define validation and human-review standards for noisy data.
  • Own hiring standards, incidents, releases and related trade-offs.

Skills

CTO experience
Founding engineer
Senior engineering leader
Production-grade products
Team leadership

Tools

React
TypeScript
Mapbox
Express
Geospatial data

Job description

dynamism is hiring a CTO-caliber Engineering Lead in New York. You will own the technical direction of infrastructure for a civic-data platform, working closely with the founder and a small team.

You will steer architecture and product decisions, deliver production-grade systems, and define validation standards. Expect equity, a four-day-in-person schedule in New York, and a high-impact roadmap with public assets data.

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